go around

present singular third person goes around · participle present going around · past went around · participle past gone around

1. intransitiveTo move or spread from person to person.

   The rumor is going around that Mr. X and Ms. Y are having an affair. There's a cough going around.

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   “[…] if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. What I won't stand is to have them togs called a livery. […]”

   1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

2. intransitiveTo visit (a place) or with (somebody).

   I'm going around to John's house later.

3. intransitiveslangTo fight or argue; to obsess over something.
4. intransitiveTo be shared with everyone.

   There's plenty of fish to go around.

5. intransitiveaeronauticsTo perform a go-around maneuver.

   ATC told the flight to go around because another plane was still on the runway.

6. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, around.

   Let's make the wheels go around.